Scandinavian crime fiction

Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

19 July, 2024

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle — If you haven’t read the first Kalmann novel, first published in 2022, you’ll probably find the opening section its sequel quite disorientating. Ever if you have read it, you may still feel that way. The story is told from…

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Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

By crimefictionlover

8 July, 2024

Sometimes, it seems, magnetic north has a pull that is more than just ionic. For Swiss crime fiction author Joachim B Schmidt, this was certainly the case and after falling in love with the place as a teenager he emigrated there in 2007. It’s where…

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End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

5 July, 2024

It’s July at the time of writing – the perfect time of year for the Swedish crime show End of Summer to arrive with subtitles on BBC Four. From 9pm on Saturday 6 July, viewers in the UK will be able to enjoy double episodes…

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The Sommerdahl Murders: Danish crime drama comes to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

26 June, 2024

Ah, Helsingør, the ancient Danish town where Hamlet was prince, and it’s the setting too for drama of a different ilk as The Sommerdahl Murders arrives in Britain on More4 at 9pm on Friday 28 June 2024. It will also be available on Channel 4’s…

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Jana: Marked for Life – new Swedish crime drama on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

5 June, 2024

Child assassins, human trafficking and buried memories are just a handful of the themes that come to the fore in Jana: Marked for Life, the new Swedish crime series that arrives on BBC Four in the UK starting Saturday 8 June, 2024. Lovers of Nordic…

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Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

By Paul Burke

7 May, 2024

Translated by Quentin Bates — Last year, Stella Blómkvist made their debut in English with Murder at the Residence and we discovered that the author’s identity is a mystery, even among the Icelandic writing community, which seems quite amazing. Now as second novel from this…

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Wisting season three on BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

10 April, 2024

Norwegian crime fiction returns to British screens on Saturday 13 April at 9pm with a third season of Wisting, based on the William Wisting novels by former police detective Jørn Lier Horst. The case gets under way with two startling events. A British boy has…

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Prisoner – the Danish crime drama comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

16 February, 2024

The Killing star Sofie Gräbøl returns to our screens, swapping the knitwear for a prison-issue blue shirt in Prisoner, which begins airing on BBC Four at 9pm on Saturday 24 February 2024. It’s a crime show where the perpetrators are already in prison – but…

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Kalmann and the Sleeping Mountain by Joachim B Schmidt

Interview: Joachim B Schmidt

End of Summer: New Swedish crime series comes to BBC Four

The Sommerdahl Murders: Danish crime drama comes to Walter Presents

Jana: Marked for Life – new Swedish crime drama on BBC Four

Murder Under the Midnight Sun by Stella Blómkvist

Wisting season three on BBC Four

Prisoner – the Danish crime drama comes to BBC Four

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